Josh Gad Quotes
Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted to get paid nothing and keep doing theater at all costs.
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I enjoy building more than managing.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.
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L.A. interests me, the whole band scene and relaxed carefree feel, but it does not mean you have to dress like a hippy.
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I'm an artist, and I'm a bit weird, and I'm probably a bit eccentric.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
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A nation never falls but by suicide.
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Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.
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Why am I seeking logic or sanity here? I'd asked myself at the moment. There hasn’t been any so far.
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
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From childhood I have been afraid of mummers. It always seemed an extra shadow without face or name had slipped among them...
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It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.
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In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.
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Everything that pushes up out of the earth I love. Everything under the earth, root vegetables, I love to cook.
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We like the John Gruber model - he writes some long stuff that's very thoughtful and analytical, and then other stuff, he just adds a bit of commentary. I like that.
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I grew up with an Apple 2E - I had a deep, emotional attachment to that machine - and I loved doodling.
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Spirituality does not have to be serious. You are spirituality. Fun laughter heal you faster than anything. Introduce fun back into your life.
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I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.
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Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted to get paid nothing and keep doing theater at all costs.
